The Defender of Rights considers that the bill -
ISA HARSIN / SIPA
Without much surprise.
In an opinion published on Thursday, the Defender of Rights estimated that the proposed law on "global security" poses "considerable risks" to the freedom to inform and the right to privacy.
This independent authority says it is "particularly concerned by the restrictions envisaged concerning the dissemination of images of security force agents in the exercise of their function".
Claire Hédon, the Defender of Rights (DDD), "asks that, on the occasion of this text, neither the freedom of the press nor the right to information be hindered".
The text, tabled on October 20 by LREM and its ally Agir, proposes in particular to penalize the malicious use of images of the police, or any other element of identification of the police officers and gendarmes in intervention, which would be punishable by 'one year in prison.
The text has been examined since Wednesday by the deputies.
"Necessary for democratic functioning"
The stated goal is to better protect the police, victims of a series of attacks, by prohibiting them from being exposed on social networks.
The DDD stresses for its part that "public information and the publication of images relating to police interventions are legitimate and necessary for democratic functioning".
In this text, she also points to the possible possibility of viewing the images from video protection cameras, the real-time use of images from police pedestrian cameras and the use of drones as a surveillance tool.
More than 400 amendments to the bill, including around thirty from the government, must be examined by the National Assembly's Law Commission, before it passes through the hemicycle, from November 17.
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